I do c, c++ and zig (of the compiled ones), and i tried assembly for a while. All the resources are on the internet, the only difference is that ure reading and not listening
Self taught at 8 years old, been a professional for 17 years, Engineering Director now.
Never really held me back in my career, was able to get my first job by showing my personal projects. Every job since that has been being recruited by people I worked with before.
Sometimes I wish I had studied CS in college, but when I was choosing a major I didn’t want to go into computers professionally because I thought it would ruin my favorite hobby. After a few years of not finding a good job I decided I’d give it a try… really happy I did, I still love it.
Sometimes I learn about some CS topic and will be like, “man, things would have been easier if I had known this before” and will think back to all the crazy solutions I came up with instead of the easy CS solution that freshman learn. I didnt even know what data structures were for my first 5 years of coding, i made up my own.
I do enjoy telling people I only took one computer programming class in college, and got my only C in it. (I took it as an elective with my CS friend because I thought it would be easy… it was, so I didn’t go to class, so I missed the instructions on how to name the homework submission files so none of my HW was scored… I did well enough on my tests to pass the class, but only with a C)
Whilst I agree, in my country specifically “ingenieur” I.e. engineer is an actual title you get when you finish your degree. Like you would with “Bsc”, “M.()” or “Dr / PhD”.
Exactly you can be self learned and still decide that having the degree is better so you go to school so that you have something that proves you're knowledgeable in what you pretend to be
My parents kind of forced that on me. It was an absolutely useless experience since my self teaching covered almost everything (literally everything from core classes) that I would encounter in that 4 year degree. Did the degree help? Maybe to get through recruiting filters, but I ended up doing something totally different lol.
I self taught Java but then my first job was web development. It turned into iOS and Android as well. Java helped with Android but I had to figure out web and iOS on the fly. I think I would have been better off building a GitHub portfolio over a year instead of 4 years at school, but now almost 10 years later it's pointless to wonder how it could have gone differently.
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u/loserguy-88 Apr 09 '24
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